Roof covering



N. P. HARSHBERGER ROOF COVERING Filed March 12, 192:5 2 Sheets-Sheet l Jan. 4 1927 N. P. HARSHBERGER ROOF GOVERING Filed4 March 12. 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2- ..333 LEC:

JDS-f LCC@ :5 of two shingles having Patented Jan, 4, 1927.

Y' UNITED STA Tas- PATENT- OFFICE. l

'T eveneens Neiman i nsnsunnnenn, or CHICAGO, ILLINoIs.

Boor oovnnme. application iiiedxarcii 1a 1923. serial no. 624,314.

roof covering, and particularly to small sheets or shingles of as halt or other substances which may s pose of covering roofs.

used for the purniziy be made in various lways cutting slits in the sheets an( ypressing tions of the material out of the planeo the sheet,

the roo clear-ly defined the groups forminfrsquares,

diamonds or the invention is of t sli-own in Fig. 1; Fig.

gures; Fig. tion of a shingle showing a figure similar to t le figures of the shingles of -Fi In providing coverings for roofs it is frequently desirable fo form the covering individual units such as are ordinarily called shingles, at the same time it is desirable to make these units much i inary type of shingles, and the roof is' appear on the roof from a distance are arge aiidindistinct. Furthermore it is diflicult to lay such shingles in rows accurately unless guiding means are provided for properly placing, the shingles vwithout Waste 0f time,

This invention'relates to improvements in pliable `h One of thev objects'.

- figure 12 of similar manner the sheet 16'rests a anst the innermost figures of 'sheets are so ch canse of the beauty lwhich they ingles consisting of sheets or strips 11 whichl may be 4of any suitable length and Width,y and formed in the strips are certain figures 12. These gares ma prefer to form them bv cutting slits 13, p

era

with the against the raised portion of the innermost the und erlying sheet l,

the sheet 15. hen the appearance, 5not only heo the gure's'themselves.'

has a very pleasing he special configuration but because of t group o f figures which A th the innermost figures of means for laying the next row.

In order to rovide for' the abutting gether o f tivo units,such as the units 16 and 18, I form slits 19 in each end units so placed that when tl ing of the i verv convement guiding com? 1n various ways, 'I

a"ged by the formation of'. y these figures and so laid on the roof. the roofius.A rom a distance the are exposed give thel appearanceof being edges of separate' units.-

of the figiio` e 

